Managing waste - the Chandigarh way

Le Corbusier's city is getting a face-lift. A unique programme of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh (MCC), is ridding the city of the most …

Greenest of all

Model building design that helps save energy and money by exploiting the sun’s movement

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Colours of Nature

An organisation in Mumbai documents the presence of dyeing pigments in microbes and plants

City on trial

Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan

A tribute to P R Mishra

P R Mishra used the power of the community to transform the barren landscape of Sukhomajri into a model for forest regeneration

News Snippets

Making sport of Conservation

The fraud of the century

The miracle of the hills and the humans

Aging science

The 91st Indian Science Congress was old wine in a tainted bottle

Childish foibles

Infected food and unhygienic feeding habits lead to a high incidence of infantile diarrhoea

Ration shops to go hi-tech

Smart cards to plug leak in public distribution system

After several deaths, government finally takes note of the seriousness of swine flu

Haryana reports 23 deaths, Delhi three; Delhi government issues advisory to hospitals to ensure availability of isolation wards, medicines

Sukhna lake survives

The City-not-so-Beautiful

Silt spells trouble for Sukhna lake

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Regulating living environment for public safety

Punjab chief justice against pesticides

Punjab, cancer capital of India

Government survey shows cancer cases in the state exceed national average

Protests against land acquisitions

Architect M N Sharma on why Chandigarh's beauty is becoming history

Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris, plans to put Chandigarh in UNESCO's modern heritage list. M N Sharma, the first architect to work with Le …

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

Polio spreads in Indian states